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Weekly Report - 5 October 2004
ARGENTINA: Piqueteros try out new tactic
Piqueteros in President Néstor Kirchner's home province of Santa Cruz have hit upon a new tactic that provokes maximum disruption to drive home their demands, at a cost of minimal repression: repeated seizures of the same business premises, which are abandoned as soon as the security forces start to move against them.
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